Daria Saville has sympathy for Verdasco amid doping ban with personal experience through ADHD: "I could go over my prescribed dose and be done for doping"

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Wednesday, 21 December 2022 at 15:30
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Daria Saville is the latest player to come out in support of Fernando Verdasco over his doping ban as she herself deals with ADHD and knows how it is.
Fernando Verdasco was recently banned from tennis for a few months after he forgot to extend his medical exemption. He caught a lot of criticism because many considered that to be a way of legal doping. Reilly Opelka came out publicly calling it legal doping and a tennis journalist claimed the majority of players in the top 100 use it.
Daria Saville came out with another perspective:
"I’ve got adhd and remembering to renew my TUE is so stressful. Remembering anything is stressful. Even remembering to take my meds is hard. Then I stress if maybe I’ve taken my meds (but forgot) I could go over my prescribed dose and be done for doping."

I’ve got adhd and remembering to renew my TUE is so stressful.remembering anything is stressful). Even remembering to take my meds is hard. Then I stress if maybe I’ve taken my meds (but forgot) I could go over my my prescribed dose and be done for doping 🙃

Reem Abulleil
Reem Abulleil
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Fernando Verdasco has accepted a two-month ban because he forgot to renew a TUE (therapeutic use exemption) for his ADHD medication and tested positive for methylphenidate. His provisional suspension ends January 8, 2023.

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